The role of a logistics company when shipping cargo by rail

- Container rail transportation: what is it, what are the specifics and when does it make sense to turn to the railroad for cargo transportation?

- To begin with, it should be noted that a container is a metal box, hermetically sealed on all sides. This means that, unlike road transportation, when the cargo, for example, is covered with a tent, such transportation is many times safer. There is no access to the cargo in the container, it is fixed, sealed and closed. In addition, the railroad does not depend on weather conditions. Whereas ice, precipitation, snowstorms, fog and other factors seriously impede the movement of motor vehicles. It is also important that long-distance transportation by rail will be economically more profitable than road transportation. That is, rail container transportation is fast, reliable and cheap. In addition, there are geographical points that can be reached only by rail, as there are no roads suitable for truck traffic. - How is rail transportation organized? Who are its participants? - Firstly, the carrier itself. In our case, it is Russian Railways. Secondly, the cargo owner - the organization that needs to transport the cargo. And thirdly, we are the logistics company that regulates relations between the carrier and the cargo owner. Most often, in such cases, we are the shipper, and the organization of transportation is our area of responsibility.

- What services does the logistics company provide in this case?

- In addition to processing all the necessary documents, we provide forwarding support for the cargo. If the cargo owner is in one city and the cargo is in another, we control the loading. The forwarder arrives, checks the documents, recalculates the places on the waybill and in fact. I would like to add that one of the advantages of our company is that our specialist checks the location and fixation of the cargo in each container for compliance with the technical conditions of placement and fixation of cargo in containers.

- Let's take a closer look at the advantages of sending cargo through a logistics company and specifically Jam Modern Logistic.

- JML has contracts with major operators such as TransContainer, Maersk, CMA CGM, COSCO, MSC, Hapag Lloyd. We ship large volumes of cargo, more than 2500 containers per month, and owners are interested in cooperation with us to accelerate the turnover of their containers. Besides, there are situations of shortage on the market. That is why we also have our own containers, thanks to which we always close our customers' orders on time. Not every logistics company has such an asset. We have a wide branch network, JML has representative offices in St. Petersburg, Moscow, Novosibirsk, Novorossiysk, Bratsk, Ust-Ilimsk, Khabarovsk, as well as in China. And where we do not have branches, we have either agents or trusted suppliers.

I would also like to talk about the team. “Jam” in the name of our company is a musical term, it means joint improvisation of several professional musicians. We have also gathered professionals, each of whom is successfully working in their field, has their own extensive experience and contributes to the common cause. Jam Modern Logistics specialists have been working on the market of logistics services for more than 20 years. In addition to accumulated experience, we have developed relationships: trusted suppliers and representatives, as well as information channels. All of the above gives us the ability to work in almost any direction, solve complex and non-trivial tasks, avoid most mistakes and get out of difficult and crisis situations quickly and with minimal losses.